Take a break and come back to join Brad White, DVM, MS, for Pre-Breeding Replacement Heifer Management at 10 pm EDT (02:00 am GMT). Learn how to help beef producers improve their herd's reproductive efficiency as well as some good management principles.

Use the Rounds link in the Main Navigation bar to join the discussion. To find out what other interesting rounds topics are coming soon, see This Week's Rounds Schedule.

If you can't attend, be sure to check the Rounds or Front Page of VIN or next Tuesday's VIN This Week for links to the transcript of the discussion.

Laminitis Videos in the VIN Library
Dr. Reid Hanson has generously provided some videoclips of a horse with acute laminitis. These video clips can be found in the VIN collection of slideshows and videos in the Library. If you didn't have empathy for Barbaro before, you certainly will after viewing these videos.

Pimobendan FAQ
Pimobendan has reached the US veterinary market and many VINners have questions about its use. Like every new drug, it is intially hailed as the next "wonder drug" by drug reps and speakers. While we discover the reality of its appropriate use, the Pimobendan FAQ provides a starting point for deciding if this new drug might be useful for your patients.

If you're looking for a current diagnostic or therapeutic tidbit, make your first stop the Medical FAQs collection. To make VIN even more helpful for you, the VIN team of consultants continue to create these up-to-date summaries of topics commonly discussed on the message boards. Save time, check out the Medical FAQs (and search the database) -- before you post.

Help Advance Veterinary Medicine!
Are you looking for clinical trials for which your patients might be eligible? Want to help your patient and advance veterinary medicine at the same time? You might be able to "kill two birds with one stone." The VIN Clinical Trials and Research Projects page lists many trials currently enrolling cases. Wander over and familiarize yourself with the trials - maybe you have a client and patient that fits the bill.

Calculate With Confidence!
You don't have to be Einstein to do these clinically useful calculations, but it sure is nice to be able to check yourself (or simply get the answers faster) using the growing collection of VIN Calculators.

• Constant Rate Infusion
• Phlebotomy
• Transfusion
• Energy Requirements
• Converting to and from SI Units
• Body Surface Area
• Echocardiography Normals

Let the VIN Calculators do the math for you, and save your scrap paper for doodling.

New in VeterinaryPartner:

• Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
• Potassium Bromide (revised)
• Is Your Iguana Happy?

Texas Farm Radio:

• Equine Emergency Care #1 4/13/07
• Equine Emergency Care #2 4/16/07

Bite wounds involving the spine: Characteristics, therapy and outcome in seven cases
Although, the numbers of reported cases are limited, this study shows that adequate surgical debridement and wound drainage, combined with external coaptation, can be sufficient to manage bite wounds that involve the spine.

Feline Infectious Peritonitis: Typical Findings and a New PCR Test
FIP virus replicates in circulating monocytes and produces mRNA, which can be detected with PCR testing.

Radiographic signs of renal disease in rabbits
The radiological features of 65 rabbits with suspected renal disease are reviewed. The radiological features included a generalised increase in bone opacity (osteosclerosis), renomegaly, nephroliths, ureteroliths and soft tissue mineralisation. One or more of these changes were present on radiographs of 57 of the 65 rabbits.

Search methods that people use to find owners of lost pets
Pet owners were found as a result of information provided by an animal agency (25%), placement of a newspaper advertisement (24%), walking the neighborhood (19%), signs in the neighborhood (15%), information on a pet tag (10%), and other methods (7%).

What about ProMeris?
I would like to know if there is anything new on the board, since June, about this (metaflumizone) product. Where are the MOA, pharmacokinetic, efficacy and safety data?

Transporting goldfish by car
A client is going to be moving from New York to Atlanta over a two day period and would like to know how best to transport her 5-6 year old goldfish. The move will be via car.

Dystocia guidelines
Recent grad here with basically no experience in small animal parturition/dystocia management (medical or surgical). I know this may sound crazy but it's true. I've been working for almost 3 months, taking emergency call for the past 6 weeks or so, and have yet to deal with this in the real world and didn't see it in any practical form at school either. Here I am on emergency tonight just waiting for a 3 a.m. dog-in-labor call.

Institutional animal care and use committee training
I am working with a research facility primarily using domestic livestock species. I am looking for some CE in this area. I have plenty of clinical experience here, but need help with regulations and rules.

Sunday Rounds
Sunday, September 9, 10 pm EDT (September 10, 02:00 am GMT)
Join Brad White, DVM, MS, for Pre-Breeding Replacement Heifer Management.
Use the Rounds link to join the discussion.
This Week's Rounds Schedule

Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, September 11, 9:30 pm EDT (September 12, 01:30 am GMT)
Stop by and chat with your colleagues.
Use the Coffeehouse link to join the discussion.
This Week's Rounds Schedule

EBM Journal Club
Tuesday, September 11, 10 pm EDT (September 12, 02:00 am GMT)
Join your colleagues for the next meeting of the Evidence Based Medicine Journal Club.
Review the transcript from the last session
Attend the EBM Journal Club

How To Use VIN: Part 2
Wednesday, September 12, 9:30 pm EDT (September 13, 01:30 am GMT)
Learn how to use VIN.
Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.
Use the Rounds link to join the discussion.
This Week's Rounds Schedule

Recent Rounds
@ = VINcast is available for this session

Member Benefit:
Group membership discounts
We offer colleagues, working in the same practice, discounted group membership rates. If more than one member of your practice is using a single VIN login, you and your colleagues should each have your own login and be billed as a group membership.

Do your part to support the VIN community you value. Email VINgram@vin.com for information about setting up a Group Membership.

Associate - Updated and New:
* Which types of shoulder luxations are common and which are rare?
*Explore the rest of the Associate!

What's Your Diagnosis?
* Dermatology Fun 5
* Case Archives

Website Of The Week:
Tick ID and more...

Get More From VIN!
Why Should I Cross-Post?
By cross-posting, you allow the various specialists to combine their knowledge into one discussion, thus creating a TEAM EFFORT in guiding you with your case. Get help and see examples here!

eVetsites Tip of the Week:
Redirect page

Upcoming Conferences
Looking to attend -- or contribute a paper to -- a veterinary conference? Check out the On The Road With VIN folder, or the Press Releases folder, to see what conferences are coming up and to visit their web sites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: ECVIM, CVC Central and IVECCS.

Book Review of the Week:
Canine and Feline Geriatric Oncology Honoring the Human-Animal Bond
You can purchase this book in the VIN store.

These courses are currently open for enrollment. Click on the links to see the details and enroll!
For More Information on VIN's Upcoming CE Courses, check out the CE Main Page.

Dentistry:

Veterinary Dental Techniques Module 2
Radiology and Periodontics
October 9 - November 6, 2007

Internal Medicine:

Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases: Remembering the Zebras
October 3 -November 14, 2004

What Makes Cats Tick? Feline Internal Medicine Module 5
Therapeutics, Dental Dilemmas, Analgesia and Anesthesia
October 31 - December 12, 2007

Oncology:

Radiation and Surgical Oncology
September 10 - October 1, 2007

Please visit the How-to's of Online CE for more information about how online CE courses work.

If you're looking for information on CE opportunities for veterinary technicians, receptionists or practice managers, please visit the VSPN CE page. VSPN offers courses specifically tailored to veterinary support personnel and certain VIN courses are also open to VPSN members.